To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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